Cedar Connect
The citizen application — official paperwork, without the trip.
What It Is
Every Lebanese citizen knows the ritual: you need a residency certificate or a civil registry extract, so you find your Mukhtar in person, during hours that rarely match your own. If you live abroad, the ritual becomes a transcontinental relay of cousins, phone calls and scanned paper of uncertain validity.
Cedar Connect is the citizen side of a platform designed to remove the trip without removing the Mukhtar. You sign in with your phone number — there is no password to forget. You pick the document you need from a catalogue of the 22 official Mukhtar administrative forms. You submit, you pay, you watch the request move, and the finished document lands in an encrypted wallet you control.
The Mukhtar institution is not the obstacle here; it is the point. Locally elected officials certify identity, residency and family status precisely because they know their communities personally. No software can fake that verification layer. What software can fix is access to it.
What It Does
Phone-number sign-in, no passwords
A one-time code to your phone is the whole login. Nothing to remember, nothing to reset, nothing to leak.
The 22 official forms, in one catalogue
The launch catalogue is the 22 official Mukhtar administrative forms, organised across six service categories.
Request, pay, track, receive
One continuous flow. You always know which stage your paperwork is at, instead of calling to ask.
An encrypted document wallet
Finished documents stay in your account, encrypted, so the next request that needs them does not start from a photocopy.
Built for the diaspora first
Mobile-first and installable, designed for someone handling Lebanese paperwork from a different time zone.
How It Is Put Together
- Phone OTP
- Catalogue
- Request
- Pay
- Track
- Wallet
Citizen flow — no password at the front, an encrypted wallet at the back.
Built On
- React 19 + TypeScript (strict)
- Vite
- TanStack Router + TanStack Query
- Tailwind CSS v4 + shadcn/ui
- Supabase — row-level security on every table
Status, Stated Plainly
Pre-launch. Zero Mukhtars onboarded. No Ministry of Interior recognition held — it is being pursued, not claimed. No partners signed.
Working code for all three applications already exists, built during a prior venture. Its IP ownership is being settled with counsel, and nothing about the platform is represented as owned until that closes.
C.I.S. Services s.a.r.l. itself is not speculative: a Lebanese company registered on the Beirut Commercial Register on 22 May 2012, active, owned outright by Carlos Kfoury with no partners and no shareholders.
Discuss Cedar Connect
Partnership, investment, licensing or a technical question — routed to Carlos directly, with the product already on the subject line.